Nanodiamonds facilitate killing of intracellular uropathogenic E. coli in an in vitro model of urinary tract infection pathogenesis

• Janaki Kannan Iyer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Natural Sciences, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Oklahoma State University-Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Alexia Dickey,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Oklahoma State University-Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Parvaneh Rouhani,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Materials Science and Engineering, Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Anil Kaul,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Care Administration, Oklahoma State University-Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Nirmal Govindaraju,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Materials Science and Engineering, Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Raj Narain Singh,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Materials Science and Engineering, Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Rashmi Kaul

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rashmi.kaul10@okstate.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Oklahoma State University-Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1060-759X

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